Ski Holidays in La Plagne, France

La Plagne is a purpose built resort, made up of ten different villages, each with their own style, ranging from the traditional at La Plagne 1800 to the ultra modern at Aime La Plagne.

La Plagne Ski Resort

The La Plagne ski resort is set at high altitude, in the Savoie French Alps and the Paradiski area. With reliable snow and the ten villages that are all linked form a massive 425km ski and snowboard playground! La Plagne is extensive and an ideal ski holiday destination and caters for all abilities. Children are well catered for at La Plagne, with nurseries in most of the villages, providing convenience for your ski holidays in La Plagne.

La Plagne was recommended to me as great for families as my two sons (10 & 5yrs) have never been skiing before....read full

La Plagne is a fantastic, huge ski area - the cable car to Les Arcs being closed this year does not matter at al...read full

There are more than 50 restaurants to choose from in the resort, and after dinner, there are 10 night clubs where you can party the night away during your ski holidays in La Plagne. Other amenities you can enjoy during your ski holidays in La Plagne include an ice rink and outdoor heated pool at Plagne Bellecôte and ten pin bowling and electronic golf at Belle Plagne.

Champagny en Vanoise lies to the South of La Plagne and has good links into the skiing above Plagne Centre and Plagne Bellecôte. It is a traditional village and is an ideal back door resort. Les Coches (1450m) is a modern resort built in chalet style. It has a good atmosphere and benefits from its own ski school and kindergarten.

Day trips to Les Arcs are easy, especially now with the connecting gondola. For those willing to travel a little further then trips to Val d'Isere, Tignes, and the Three Valleys, all of which are covered for a day with a six-day pass.

Skiing in La Plagne

Beginners: Facilities for the beginner on ski holidays in La Plagne are good, with nursery slopes adjacent to each of the villages, and easy runs between each centre.

Intermediates: Ski holidays in La Plagne are perfect for intermediates with over 70% blue and red runs. To mention a few, the run from La Grand Rochette to Champagny is a particular favourite. There are lots of gentle blue motorway pistes in the main La Plagne bowl and an interesting run from Roche de Mio back to Belle Plagne.

Experts: Advanced skiers on ski holidays in La Plagne will enjoy the black runs on the Plagne Bellecôte glacier, or the long tree-lined runs from Aime La Plagne past Plagne 1800. Off piste skiing in La plagne is good, with the route to Les Arcs challenging.

Snowboarders: Plenty of off-piste opportunities and Plagne Soleil has a dedicated park for snowboarders.

Ski Chalets in La Plagne, France

Experience the ultimate in ski holdays with a ski chalet in La Plagne. Choose from Igluski's selection of La Plagne chalets including chalets with hot tubs, family chalets, group chalets and many more ski chalets in La Plagne.

La Plagne Apartments

La Plagne was recommended to me as great for families as my two sons (10 & 5yrs) have never been skiing before. We were not disappointed!
We stayed in a self catering apartment in Plagne Soleil, (a small village slightly higher than Plagne Centre) which proved to be a fantastic location. The local Spar shop was 100m away, the ski-school office and daily meeting points were 50m away, and the apartment block is 100% ski-in ski-out to the locker room (no walking or bus rides to think about). One chair-lift is a very short ski away, a useful button-lift is directly outside.
The ski schools for the kids were official ESF, and were very professionally organised. English was well spoken by the instructors (although 90% of students were French, so inevitably the boys missed out some details I’m sure). They both progressed well and were delighted with their certificates and medals at the end (cost €6!)
Also next to the apartment block was a great little nursery area with a drag-rope ideal for messing about with the kids after ski-school, and for sledging in the evening.
The Pistes are very large and the great majority of runs are Blue (“average”) these were generally wide and accommodating, with occasional tricky sections. It’s been 10 years since my wife and I went skiing so this suited us very well. There were many more challenging runs, but we didn’t get to them.
We went over the new year period, and were lucky with plenty of snow at all levels, along with brilliant sunshine for 4 out 6 days. Some ice was beginning to form lower down and on shaded slopes, but nothing too bad.
Only slight negatives would be 2-3hr transfer time from Geneva (but very comfortable coaches were laid on.) There was a limited number of lively restaurants and bars in Plagne soleil (plenty more in Plagne Centre though). The button-lift directly outside the apartment provided excellent access to the pistes, but was not an easy ride, with a wicked kick at the start, making it unsuitable for my two novice skiing children. But the chair lift nearby was no problem for the older one.
Overall, fantastic!

Review
19/01/2008

La Plagne is a fantastic, huge ski area - the cable car to Les Arcs being closed this year does not matter at all - the skiing in La Plagne could keep a keen intermediate happy for a whole season, let alone a week. Plagne Centre is ugly, Aime 2000 even more ugly. Plagne 1800 is a pretty and more traditional village with wooden chalets and apartments, as are Belle Plagne and Bellacote. The latter two are best placed to skiing the entire area (including Les Arcs), although even from 1800 you can still reach the whole area. Loads of off-piste, in high powder bowls. For beginners, I would suggest Centre or Bellacote are best areas to stay to get you around as much of the area as possible in your first week. Mountain restaurants are excellent quality (spotless toilets!), but amazingly expensive, as are some of the bars and restaurants we tried in Centre, but you get what you pay for and the entire place is first class, can't fault it. Try Caudron Restaurant in Centre for a real treat, Le Petit Chaperon Rouge in 1800 for cosy, log fire ambiance, and Mama Mia's in 1800 for great pizza and reasonable prices.

Review
31/01/2008

La Plagne is a great resort for intermediates and beginners. Advanced skiers may find it limiting but the scale of the resort especially linked with Les Arcs (which was not linked this winter 2008 due to mechanical problems with the cable car) makes for a vast area to ski with the possibility of finding new runs every day. There are good mountain restaurants with fantastic views and a friendly welcome. Lift queues are minimal due to the high speed quads and we never had to wait more than a few minutes, apart from an hour long strike one morning by the attendants. This was my third ski holiday to La Plagne and the second in the Terra Nova hotel I would return without hesitation.

Review
05/02/2009

We stayed at La Plagne 1800. It is a bit quiet up there but a lovely resort. It is quite expensive as most of France is now. It is worth going to the Spa for drinks at 1/10 th price. Do the bobsleigh run; it is worth every euro. There is very easy skiing in and out, with a brilliant variety of runs. The biggest pain is Plagne Centre as it’s quite difficult to ski to the lifts. There’s lots of walking and poling.

11/04/2011

Chalet India
We had a brilliant holiday at Chalet india - W/C 26th March
Transfers were ontime and coaches were great - a minor problem with trip to LP the coach was very hot - this was passed on by others to the rep in La Plagne who made sure the coach on the way back was nice and cool. small issue solved very quickly by rep.
We were given lots of advise and recommendations both by the transfer rep and the rep in site..having been to LP before we thought the info was accurate and concise.
The Chalet was nicely laid out and very comfortable - our chalet host Lauren was lovely and took good care of us.
The food was always well cooked and beautifully presented. there was a lot of variety in meat and veg used - we would have liked a few nights with a simpler menu and my hubby struggled with all teh sauces..being a plain eater but Lauren tried her best to accomodate us all..
All in all a great time had by all...

Skiing/Snowboarding:
5/5Apres Ski:
4/5

michelle fox

15/04/2011

Chalet India Feb half term 2011
We had a great week, our chalet girl Lauren made us feel very welcome. Her cooking was excellent. She was flexible with arrangements, and was very considerate making sure our teens were well looked after too. Cathy the resort manager was very helpful in arranging the luge for our kids.
The chalet was clean, the bedrooms were compact but the communal area was quite spacious and airy. More hooks to hang stuff in the bedrooms would be helpful. It was close to the slopes so ideal for anyone who can ski an easy blue run. Lift queues were good considering it was half term.

Skiing/Snowboarding:
5/5Apres Ski:
2/5

Liz Carter

Chalet la Foret
05/01/2015

I have just returned from a ski holiday in La Plagne France.
We were caught up in the traffic chaos on 27th Dec. It seemed there were various reasons for this including avalanches, accidents and snowfall so basically couldn't be helped. Under the circumstances I thought everyone did an excellent job and got us to our chalet albeit 3.30 am. Which was much better than some companies putting people up in cold sports halls.
On our arrival the two chalet hosts had waited up all night for us and the next arrivals throughout the morning. We were offered hot drinks and a three course meal and a great welcome. Although it was a bit strange eating a three course meal at that time in the morning it was very welcome.
Throughout the week our hosts were more than helpful, friendly, and provided us with wonderful food. I could not praise them highly enough.
Our rep also called in twice a day and answered any questions. Throughout the week I heard many complaints but we were more than happy with our week's holiday. Thank you

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